Facts are useful in emergencies

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! Forget the Sleepless Shores made the 2018 Locus Recommended Reading List! It looks as though this makes the collection eligible for voting in the Locus Awards, so, you know, if you liked it, go tell the magazine.

I slept very little and very badly: from about midnight until sometime around four o'clock when I woke up coughing and fever-sweating and stayed that way. I have a doctor's appointment this afternoon.

I greatly enjoyed this Twitter thread of U.S. presidents as snack foods.

Comments

[drwex]

That is a deeply weird thread, not least because if one was going to argue against it, or even contribute to it, one would (a) need to know a fair amount about a given past president then (b) know a bit about snack foods and then (c) think it was a worthwhile use of your hours on Planet Earth to combine a+b.

Which is half the point of comedy, I think.

[sovay]

one would (a) need to know a fair amount about a given past president then (b) know a bit about snack foods and then (c) think it was a worthwhile use of your hours on Planet Earth to combine a+b.

I agreed with almost all their reasoning, though! (I felt the Lucky Charms were a bit unfair to John Quincy Adams and Woodrow Wilson, despite the zinger last sentence, might have been unnecessarily flattered by the Moon Pie.)

[selkie]

HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

Now don't die.

[sovay]

HUZZAH! HUZZAH! HUZZAH!

Thank you!

Now don't die.

Hey, I saw a doctor! And she gave me nineteenth-century drugs!

[gwynnega]

Congratulations on making the Locus Recommended Reading List!

I hope you feel better soon.

[sovay]

Congratulations on making the Locus Recommended Reading List!

Thank you!

I hope you feel better soon.

I am really working on it.

Locus

[dramaticirony]

Congrats on being recommended, and here's hoping doctors can recommend something helpful!

Re: Locus

[sovay]

Congrats on being recommended, and here's hoping doctors can recommend something helpful!

Thank you on both fronts!

[pameladean]

Oh, congratulations! *goes off to see about voting*

P.l

[pameladean]

I support their Patreon, but I don't suppose they feel that's equivalent. Well, I'll check into a subscription at least. I had to stop reading it long long ago because all the publishing news of six-figure advances and all the glamorous convention photos were making me feel very low. I am marginally wiser now.

P.

[sovay]

I am marginally wiser now.

You're awesome.

(Apologies for the duplicate comments; the one with the wonky HTML didn't even show as posted originally, so I re-commented and only saw there were two of them later.)

[sovay]

Oh, congratulations!

Thank you!

*goes off to see about voting*

I think you have to be a Locus subscriber, but I figure someone on my friendlist must be. [edit] You don't have to be a Locus subscriber! Your vote just has more weight if you are.

[pameladean]

Oh, good, no subscription necessary after all! I'll put off seeing if I'm over myself.

P.

[asakiyume]

Congratulations on making the Locus reading list! That's excellent!

[sovay]

Congratulations on making the Locus reading list! That's excellent!

Thank you! I suspect my chances of an actual award are somewhat longer than astronomical, but just being on the longlist was unexpected and makes me really happy.

[asakiyume]

I didn't even know there was an award to be had! I think the big thrill for me is just seeing people's names, yours and others. But hell, if there's an award to be had, then fingers crossed!

[sovay]

I didn't even know there was an award to be had! I think the big thrill for me is just seeing people's names, yours and others.

It is a thrill! And an honor in its own right. But it is my understanding that the recommended reading list serves as the ballot for the Locus Awards, which both subscribers and non-subscribers to the magazine can vote in. I'm not going to win. I'm in the same category as Caitlín R. Kiernan and N.K. Jemisin and Jane Yolen and KJ Parker and Michael Bishop and Jo Walton and George R.R. Martin, all right? But I still hope someone votes for me. It would be fun.

[yhlee]

Congratulations!!!

[sovay]

Congratulations!!!

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, well done! Sorry about the illness not getting any better though - I hope the appointment helps! <3

[sovay]

Oh, well done! Sorry about the illness not getting any better though - I hope the appointment helps!

Thank you! I was sent home with cough syrup, so at least they took me seriously.

[choco_frosh]

I greatly enjoyed this Twitter thread of U.S. presidents as snack foods.

I felt like Fillmore and Tyler should have been something much, much more regrettable. (Forgettable, yet regrettable.)

But overall, yeah, that was brilliant.

[sovay]

I felt like Fillmore and Tyler should have been something much, much more regrettable. (Forgettable, yet regrettable.)

I feel carrot sticks with ranch dressing are pretty regrettable. Agreed that rice cakes are neutral to positive with me, which is more than Tyler deserves.

William Henry Harrison and James Garfield, however, made me laugh out loud. Also Hebert Hoover.